Wikimedia is a movement. We're not a game, we're not a website, we're not even just an encyclopedia-- we're a nonviolent revolution in information sharing. For-profit media is harder to trust-- we've seen that "For-profit" media often means "For sale". In a time where it's hard to trust a congress or mainstream media, one thing we can agree to trust is each other-- in the form of the Wikimedia community and its leaders.
Today, I'm so proud to be a part of this community. It's _extra-clear_ today that we do stand for something-- indeed, we stand for something quite revolutionary. MSNBC and CNN can never afford to go back-- they have advertisers. We are one of the few truly-non-profit information sources-- and that gives us a unique value unlike for-profit information sources. In a sea of alphabet soup, three letters we CAN trust are WMF. I hope in 2012, the WMF will take its governance model and continue to apply it outside the limited scope of encyclopedias. Genealogy is the goto example-- Ancestry.com can't afford to blackout for good causes-- WE can. We're not just another information source-- we're an information source with a conscience. That makes all the difference. Good work, WMF. Thank you for what you've done, thank you for what you're doing. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
